See firsthand how Flis Performance tears apart a four-rotor racing engine to get it ready for the track again.

If there's one thing forever associated with the Wankel rotary engine, it's Mazda. Powering production vehicles from the Cosmo's launch in May 1967 to the last RX-8 leaving the plant in June 2012, the ...

The rotary engine, a unique and unconventional design, has provided Mazda with remarkable advantages in the world of racing.

Call it resilience or sheer stubbornness, but Mazda still wants to include rotary engines in its future lineup. Of course, ...

In the global automotive ocean, Mazda is a pretty small fish. It's also one of the bravest, as its spectacular history shows ...

This is what it takes to maintain a 9,000-rpm racing engine.

Long before Felix Wankel became synonymous with rotary engines, an inventive Hungarian-American engineer named Stephen M. Balzer secured one of the earliest patents for a rotary-powered automobile on ...

Mazda has a new technical school, and what better way to learn more about cars than through the program lead for the MX-5?

The engine in question was the Wankel rotary, named after German engineer Felix Wankel, who first patented the concept in 1929. Instead of pistons moving back and forth, the rotary engine used a ...

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